A couple days forgotten

It strikes me during swims and runs and biking of carious lengths the incongruous nature of our sport. The desire to zone out and the need to be in the moment. Can you really pass four hours without a break, without stopping from the concentration of the present. I felt today the difficulty of maintaing that concentration, but also the absolute necessity of it. The need to forgo thoughts of past and future in order to summon all of the energies of the moment onto the action at hand. Difficult it si, for what happens when you lose it, you become distracted. And how do you build it? What ways will I build the moment when everything else is forgotten except for the present. So not only when I'm in that intense climbing, painvful burning muscles stage, but also when I want to cruise steady, cruise solid.

So what new insights have I had in the past few days. My swim will improve. My bike must improve, my run is doing ok. The daily routine has expanded once more, which it has needed to because I'm simply not getting the stretching I need. Unfortunately the victim of increased exercise time is sleep, for I will not give up the fam and such, so I'm down to 7 hours a night, which I've found myself surviing on already the past few weeks, soits not such a big change. Also dropping the heavy dinners, which should round out my diet nicely and I can finally say goodbye to this winter/lifetime weight, clean out my system, and see what kind of energy a proteien man has. I'm almost tempted just to eat my dog's food with some extra fruit on the side. 52% formulated proteien with 12% fat. Crazy good for you if you ask me, but it doesn't taste so great and I like my tenderloin steaks.

The tears are leaking from my eyes. 5am yoga and stretching, here I come.